Sharp, green-herbal aroma of fresh parsley seed with a warm, slightly spicy-woody undertone. Opens bright and vegetal with a distinctive carrot-seed-like earthiness, drying down to a soft, warm, faintly balsamic base.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 311.
Parsley seed oil is a yellowish to amber-colored or brownish liquid, more or less viscous.
The odor of Parsley Seed Oil is warm-woody, spicy, somewhat sweet-herbaceous but, in the author's opinion, not at all reminiscent of parsley herb.
Its flavor is equally warm-spicy, aromatic, rich and deep, but unfortunately quite bitter.
Parsley seed oil is used in perfumery for so-called 'special effects'. It is more spicy-aromatic and less fatty-woody than carrot seed oil. Accordingly, the use of parsley seed oil in perfumery is restricted to such fragrances where a warm-spicy effect is called for: Oriental bases, chypres, 'men’s fragrances', colognes, certain modern fantasy perfumes, etc. The oil is also used in certain types of rose and orange flower bases.
The main use of parsley seed oil is in flavors for meat sauces, seasonings, spice blends, canned food, pickles, etc. The oil has even been used in tobacco flavoring.
This oil is produced by steam distillation of the ripe fruit, also called seed, of Petroselinum Sativum.